Re: Screen darker when viewing straight on

Good news everybody (in my best farnsworth voice): the polarizer film was in backwards. when I took it out and held it up to the light the middle was blurred and the edges clearish. flipping it over caused the whole film to appear clear..ish.

thanks for the replies, I just won't admit how long I put up with the poor image (months) before deciding to take it back apart.

I recently replaced the CFLs in my Hanspree LCD. I've realized when looking straight at it, the image center is darker. When viewing from a steep angle (from the side) it looks brighter and even across the whole screen.

Anyone know if this could be caused by me putting one of the plastic layers (polarizing/alignment/etc) in backwards when reassembling it?

Re: Hannspree HF257 - White Screen

thanks everyone for the replies! I only had a cheap meter last night, so I'll need to go dig my nicer meter capable of testing capacitance out of some moving boxes. I'll update the post once I can find it

I have a 25" Hannspree Monitor that all of sudden went white (full backlight no image). Troubleshooting (steps listed below) led me to think I have a bad smd capacitor. I'm curious how to determine what the replacement capacitor is since there are no external markings? Picture of the top half:


Troubleshooting steps:
- Swapped logic board from identical working monitor (Good monitor still worked)
- Swapped power board from same monitor (Good monitor still worked)
- Returned parts to bad monitor
- With unit powered on, measured voltage going...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

I came across this site a few months ago and after reading through many of its helpful posts, I decided to join and hopefully contribute in some way.